9 statements across 4 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 8, 2018 by Elad Gil · said 55 times in 8 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Craig Cannon (37), Gustaf Alströmer (6), Brian Donohue (6), Kevin Hale (2), Suhail Doshi (1), Ooshma Garg (1), Elad Gil (1), Avni Patel Thompson (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2019 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2018 46 mentions in 5 episodes 9 per episode
- Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Pinterest, oldest first
Mar 8, 2018 positive
Brian Chesky and Ben Silbermann scaled rapidly by internalizing new domains
“Ben, the CEO of Pinterest is a great example of this, where every time you talk to him, ah, six months, ah, ah, later he'll have, ah, internalized everything and have learned way more than you ever knew about a topic. And so that's an example of somebody who's…”
Sep 27, 2018 negative
Schwartz: Google dislikes ranking search-within-search platforms like Pinterest
“Google specifically does not like search within search. Google would much prefer that you don't go to Pinterest, that you go directly to where that image was, but maybe that site didn't do a great job of optimizing the image, but Pinterest did, so now Pinteres…”
Nov 14, 2018 neutral
Donohue: Only 16% of Instapaper URLs appeared on Pinterest on day one
“And what I found is that on day, on the first day that we saw those links, only 16% of those links were in Pinterest. So we actually see like a much different set of URLs on a given day. And then over time, I think within seven or eight days, Pinterest gets to…”
Nov 14, 2018 positive
Nov 14, 2018
Instapaper raised $80,000 from friends and family for spinout
“So we raised 80,000 dollars from friends and family. Very ragtag, like six people. So to kind of give you the average size, I think the largest check was from me, which was 13,000. And then most of the people had 10, some people put in five.”
Nov 14, 2018 bullish
Donohue: Capital invested in Pinterest yielded better returns than funding Instapaper
“The reason being is that treating it as a business unit, I just felt that every dollar put into Instapaper could maybe return 70 cents a dollar. Like, it would be pretty challenging to, like, have it kind of be an investment that had a solid return. But I felt…”
Aug 15, 2019 positive
Alströmer: Pinterest acquires new users primarily via Google SEO
“If you think of Pinterest, SEO is the re, the real way how Pinterest is going. You type something in on Google, there already exists a Pinterest board for that, and you land on that Pinterest board. That's how they acquire new users.”
Aug 15, 2019 positive
Alströmer: Startups should copy Pinterest and Airbnb's authentication flows
“Look at the best websites in the world. Look at Pinterest. Look at Airbnb. Look at some of those sites. They have teams optimizing these flows the authentication flow. Copy what they do. They probably figure it out. They spend a lot of time optimizing.”
Aug 15, 2019
Alströmer: SEO-driven startups must eventually match Pinterest and TripAdvisor
“If you are going to rely on search engine optimization to grow you're going to have to Be as good as a Pinterest or a TripAdvisor. Eventually. Not right away, but eventually. Because, ah, it's so competitive to win in this, like, large world of SEO.”